So I’m going to slow down my run days just a little and see if maybe that will help get my time down around 50 minutes or so, it is worth a try.

There was a lot of people up there today, strange for the mid of the week, a few people putting there bikes together. I knew if I rode the 8k loop clockwise I wouldn’t see a person till around Big Springs. I haven’t been on the bike in over a week now and I could feel it on the dirt road up to the first big meadow. It was feeling pretty sticky and I stopped to check my tire pressure, they are about 5 pounds low but I let them go. It seemed to take me about 20 minutes to get into the peddle. I slipped out on the first little single track I climbed.

I got through the top gate and decided to take the climb up and over instead of taking the easy way down the road. I made it up over the climb without touching the ground and started to feel better, the downhill to the next meadow was a nice fast drop. Sam was doing her thing along the way chasing things but not killing them I hope! Before I knew it I was hitting the last uphill to Big Springs and I had already passed another female rider that I had seen at the base and was working my way past a large group of scattered hikers. I hit the top and dropped around to the campground and finished the loop and was heading down when I ran into the hikers again. The trail was full all the way down so I had to be careful and not hit anyone.

At the bottom I decided to take  a ride back up and cut across to the big meadow I had started with this added on about another 25 minutes putting me out just as the light was going down.

Bubby is still pretty new at this and it will take a few dozen runs to start to understand it and use it to your advantage. He did push harder today than he did in our last run together. Along the way I was trying to talk to him about what was happening and why, the best ways to deal with lactic acid buildup from a steep long uphill drag. How to pound your legs and shack it out of the muscle fiber as you move over the top of the hill. He is young and probably did not understand a lot of what I said but he did seem to do better today and did the 8k loop in about 76 minutes.

He says he want’s to run the Park City Mini-Trail Series 15k on August 14, 2010 that happens to be on my birthday! I will try to push him to do a double 8k and we will see if he can run with me in the 15k.

I love trail running it clears my head and gives me time to work through things in my life with a clear response!

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Got out to Big Springs today for a ride in the great fall colors going on right now. Took Sam and Jack with me and even a camera so I got some great shots of the trail and the dogs so check out the video with music by Blackdog Mems.

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